Holy warriors : the religious ideology of chivalry /
Kaeuper argues that chivalric ideology of the high and later Middle Ages selectively appropriated religious ideas to valorize the institution of knighthood. He describes how both elite warriors and clerics contributed to a Christian theology that validated the knights' bloody profession.
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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Table of Contents:
- Violent knights, holy knights
- Model knight/authors as guides
- The religious context for chivalric ideology
- Independence in knightly piety
- Knightly ideology developed and disseminated
- The hero and the suffering servant
- Knighthood and the new lay theology : ordines and labor
- Knighthood and the new lay theology : confession and penance
- Writing the death certificate for chivalric ideology.